Work more - meetings less

This seems to be my life lately. Working extra hours, getting to less meetings. Does anyone go to meetings here ?? I love this DS site, when I
am home and it is late and ect. I get on this and just love it.. it is all about you out there helping one another out. I find myself under pressure
alittle, but maybe it is myown self doing this. They talk about self sabatoge and when we get these tensions to keep the Serenity Prayer at hand in the mind. What about the middle of the checkstand and I am the checker and that feeling of pressure and stress and overwhelming comes in and in the middle of a screaming customer and on other side there are kids out of control. THen you have employees on the other side of that complaining of there hours and the shifts ........ being powerless of people,places and things is one thing, but I find myself failing at what I do very well and wanting to yell GOD HELP!! Is there any suggestions out there that anyone could give ?? I am always looking for a better way to handle situations -- without the self sabatoge, they say to me one day my job will make me drink, I say, no I make me drink you make me sink....

I can&#039;t even tell you how many times a day that I say the Serenity Prayer. I also carry the Third Step prayer with me and whip that out when I&#039;m feeling out of control and ready to pick up that first deadly drink. I don&#039;t know what else I can say.

That&#039;s all I&#039;ve found so far that truly helps me. I can pick up the phone and text or call my sponsor when I&#039;m feeling really out of control. Unfortunately, you probably can&#039;t do that at your job.

In relation to work more - meetings less, I was told early in my recovery &quot;never let what AA has given you take you away from AA&quot;. I think that is a warning that as I get my life back and it gets busier it is easy to find it difficult to make time for things. I need to remember that I only have those things because of AA and the program and I need to keep those as the priority in my life otherwise I can easily lose everything again. I no longer need to go to nearly as many meetings as I did when I first got sober but I must have balance in my life and my attendance at AA will reflect how much of a priority I am giving to sobriety/recovery.

In relation to better handling situations - for me it is about practising steps 10,11 and 12 on an ongoing basis.

One of the step 9 promises is that we will intuitively be able to handle situations which used to baffle us. When I had completed steps 1-9 of the program this promise started to come true for me.

In order to maintain that I must continue with Steps 10, 11 and 12. Taking inventory, practising prayer and meditation, practising spiritual principles and carrying the message to others. This covers everything in my life - Step10 inventory is looking at me, Step 11 is looking at my relationship with my HP, step12 is dealing with my relationship with the world and the other people in it.

The instructions for steps 10 and 11 in the book really work for me when I follow them. I have some sheets which lay them out in flowchart form to make them easy to carry around and follow if that would help you.

Your job will not make you drink but how you deal with it might. I believe that the reason that alcoholics drink is because they are not in fit spiritual condition therefore cannot handle life in a spiritual way. The spiritual malady leads to mental obsession and thus we will drink.

By practising steps 10, 11 and 12 we can maintain and grow our spiritual condition and thus are able to handle our lives. This may be that you can better handle your job or that you decide it is not right for you and change it. Whichever way you will be making decisions from a healthy place.

The job will not make you drink, an unfit spiritual condition eventually will. I believe that is what we need to look at. Am I in fit spiritual condition? If the answer is yes, however difficult life is I will be able to deal with it. If the answer is no, however life is whether great or terible I will not be able to deal with it and will eventually drink,so what do I need to do to get and stay in fit spiritaul condition.

Alcoholism is an internal condition and whether we drink depends on our internal/spiritual state, not on external factors - this is my experience.

Let me know if you would like the step 10 and 11 sheets. And happy to help in any other way i can.

You go to a meeting when you have something better to do you are practicing willingness.
You put a dollar into the basket you are practicing charity.
You say the Serenity Prayer you are practicing prayer &amp; meditation.
You admit to group of strangers that you are an alcoholic you are practicing humility.
You listen to others who you do not like you are practicing open-mindedness.
You try to help others you are practicing benevolence.

Any activity that allows you to practice these principles is what &quot;Makes It&quot;.

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